What all Firefly Services APIs share (provisioning, authentication, job handling, storage, limits and SDKs).
Built on: OAuth Server-to-Server authentication
Integrates with: Developer Console
Last checked 2026-09-30
CX Enterprise atlas / Content Supply Chain | Creativity & design
Adobe Firefly Services
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Content Supply ChainCreativity & design
Also known as Firefly Services, Firefly APIs, Firefly Services APIs
A set of cloud APIs that let developers automate content production at scale: Firefly generative image and video APIs, the headless Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign and Illustrator APIs, the Substance 3D API, the Audio/Video API (reframing, dubbing and lip sync, speech, avatars, motion-graphics rendering), the Adobe Express API, the Creative Production workflow API and Content Tagging. APIs are asynchronous, use OAuth server-to-server authentication and are licensed to enterprises through Adobe sales and metered in operations.
Part of 1
Built on 1
Powers 2
Integrates with 1
Foundation for 3
- Adobe Experience Manager Assets: Content Automation
- Adobe Firefly Creative Production
- Frame.io: Firefly Actions, Firefly Services variations
Integrated by 5
- Adobe Firefly Custom Models
- Adobe Firefly Enterprise Solutions
- Frame.io
- Adobe Substance 3D
- Adobe Workfront: Adobe Firefly modules
Includes 1
Contains 11 parts, 60 entries
- Platform and access# Collection
- Provisioning and licensing# Capability
Enterprise access arranged through an Adobe representative. An Admin Console admin assigns the Firefly Services products (Firefly, Photoshop, Lightroom, Content Tagging) to users with the System Administrator or Developer role, who create Developer Console projects. Usage is billed in operations, a metric for API calls.
Built on: Admin Console
Last checked 2026-09-30
- OAuth server-to-server authentication# Capability
Client-credentials tokens from Adobe IMS, valid for 24 hours, sent with the project's API key.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Asynchronous jobs and webhooks# Capability
Requests return a job ID and status URL to poll; the Photoshop, Lightroom, Audio/Video and Express APIs can also notify through Adobe I/O Events webhooks, and the Substance 3D API offers a blocking wait mode.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Cloud storage inputs and outputs# Capability
Inputs and outputs are passed as pre-signed URLs on allow-listed storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Frame.io); the Firefly API also has its own image upload endpoint.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Rate limits# Capability
Per-organisation limits that differ by API, for example 4 requests per minute and 9,000 per day by default for Firefly generation, and around 300 POST requests per minute for Photoshop; higher limits are arranged through the account team.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Firefly Services SDK# API / SDK
Official JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for Node.js, published as npm packages for the Firefly, Photoshop and Lightroom APIs plus shared common modules.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- IP indemnification for Firefly APIs# Capability
The Firefly APIs are an eligible surface for Firefly IP indemnity when a qualifying customer consumes operations and downloads the output; beta features are excluded.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Firefly API# API / SDK
Also known as Adobe Firefly API
Generative endpoints for Firefly image and video models: image generation, similar images, expand, fill, composites, upscaling, video generation and generation with custom models, with style presets, style and structure references, masks and seeds.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Generate Images# API / SDK
Asynchronous text-to-image generation (v3) with Firefly Image 3, Image 4 Standard or Ultra and their custom-model variants, selected by model version.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Generate Images with Image5# API / SDK
The v4 generation endpoint for Firefly Image Model 5: native 4-megapixel output, Instruct Edit for natural-language image-to-image edits and optional alt-text returned with the image; a migration guide covers moving from v3.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Generate Similar Images# API / SDK
Creates variations that resemble a reference image.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Expand and Fill Image# API / SDK
Generative Expand (extend an image to a new size or aspect ratio) and Generative Fill (replace a masked area from a prompt).
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Composite Operations APIs# API / SDK
Places product shots into generated scenes. Object Composite generates the scene from a prompt; Precise Composite (new ME model, adjustable harmonisation of light and shadow) and Adaptive Composite (bring your own background, automatic object rotation) were added in March 2026.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Upscale API# API / SDK
Upscales user or generated images 2×, 4× or 6× while preserving detail; moved from beta to GA in April 2026, retiring the creative upsampler.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Generate Video API# API / SDK
Generates five-second clips from a prompt or keyframe images with the Firefly Video Model, in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 up to 1080p.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Job status and cancel# API / SDK
Endpoints to poll and cancel asynchronous Firefly jobs.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Synchronous and v1/v2 Firefly endpoints# API / SDK, deprecated
Generate v2, Expand v1 and Fill v1 were removed in September 2025 and the synchronous v3 endpoints in October 2025, replaced by the async versions.
Replaced by Generate Images
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Photoshop API# API / SDK
Also known as Adobe Photoshop API
Headless Photoshop operations on PSD and image files in the cloud. Version 2 is generally available, with files up to 5 GB, ICC profiles and multiple outputs per request.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Create Composite# API / SDK
Creates or edits documents and layers, including text and adjustment layers, embedded and linked Smart Objects and SVG.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Edit# API / SDK
Auto Tone, Auto Straighten, light and colour adjustments, presets and XMP edits; replaces the Lightroom API.
Replaces: Lightroom API
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Execute Actions# API / SDK
Runs Photoshop actions (ATN), ActionJSON and UXP JavaScript scripts, including Generative Fill and Expand steps.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Artboards and document manifest# API / SDK
Creates artboards and returns a document's layer manifest.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Masking APIs# API / SDK
Create Mask for objects, body-part masks, mask refinement and fill of masked areas.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Photoshop API v1# API / SDK, deprecated
The original endpoints (document manifest, create and operations, renditions, Smart Objects, actions, product crop, depth blur, text); deprecated on 2026-04-20 with end of life on 2026-07-31.
Replaced by Photoshop API
Last checked 2026-09-30
- InDesign API# API / SDK
Also known as Adobe InDesign API, InDesign APIs
Headless InDesign document automation for templated, data-driven layouts.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- InDesign Data Merge API# API / SDK
Merges CSV records into an InDesign template, with variable output file naming and a tags endpoint that lists merge fields.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Remap Links# API / SDK
Repoints linked assets in a document, for example to AEM Assets through Asset Link.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- InDesign custom scripts# API / SDK
Registers, manages and runs customer scripts against InDesign documents on a chosen app version.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Document info and PDF conversion# API / SDK
Returns document information and, since February 2026, converts PDFs into editable InDesign documents.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Illustrator API# API / SDK
Also known as Adobe Illustrator API
Headless Illustrator operations for vector artwork.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Illustrator Data Merge API# API / SDK
Merges data into Illustrator templates to produce variants.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Illustrator Rendition API# API / SDK
Renders Illustrator documents to other formats.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Illustrator custom scripts# API / SDK, beta
Runs customer scripts against Illustrator documents; public beta.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Substance 3D API# API / SDK
Also known as Firefly Services 3D APIs, Adobe Substance 3D API
Cloud 3D rendering and compositing: renders 3D models to images, composites 3D hero objects into Firefly-generated scenes and prepares scenes, with temporary spaces for assets. Generally available since March 2025 and used for 3D digital twin rendering in Firefly Creative Production.
Integrates with: Substance 3D
Powers: 3D digital twin solution
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Render 3D Object# API / SDK
Renders GLB or glTF models to images with camera controls and .sbsar material overrides, plus a basic render endpoint.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Generate 3D Object Composite# API / SDK
Places a 3D hero object into a Firefly-generated background with lighting seeds, structure references and variations.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Spaces# API / SDK
Temporary asset containers filled by upload, public URL or Frame.io, whose job outputs can be chained into further jobs.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Audio/Video API# API / SDK
Also known as Firefly Services Audio and Video API, Audio and Video API
Video and speech automation for motion-graphics rendering, reframing, transcription, dubbing with lip sync, text to speech and avatars.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Dynamic Graphics Render API# API / SDK
Also known as DGR API
Renders up to 500 video variations per call from After Effects motion graphics templates (MOGRT or AEP) bound to data such as a CSV, swapping text, images, audio and video for campaigns and localisation.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Reframe API# API / SDK
Reframes video to new aspect ratios around detected or named subjects; v2 adds semantic subject lock, overlays and an OTIO sidecar for Premiere Pro (beta), and v1 may be deprecated.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Translate and Lip Sync API# API / SDK
Also known as Dubbing and Lip Sync
Transcribes speech (transcripts and SRT captions) and dubs video into other languages in the speaker's voice, optionally with lip sync and multiple speakers.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Text to Avatar API# API / SDK
Lists avatars and generates presenter videos from a script.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Adobe Express API# API / SDK, beta
Also known as Express API
Beta API for producing variations of Adobe Express documents that were tagged for automation and exporting them. Outputs stay editable in Express for last-mile changes, generated documents are kept 30 days, and webhook notifications were added in September 2026. Access is by request or through existing Firefly Services provisioning.
Integrates with: Express
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Tagged documents# API / SDK
Lists Express documents whose elements have been tagged as replaceable.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Create Variation# API / SDK, beta
Creates a new variation of a tagged document with replaced text and images (added August 2026).
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Generate Variation# API / SDK, deprecated
The earlier variation endpoint, deprecated in August 2026 in favour of Create Variation.
Replaced by Create Variation
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Export Rendition# API / SDK
Exports a document to JPG or PNG (up to 8192 px), MP4 (up to 4096 px) or standard or print PDF with accessibility options.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Creative Production API# API / SDK
Also known as Workflow Builder API, Firefly Creative Production API
REST API (run-workflow.adobe.io) for Firefly Creative Production workflows: executes and monitors batches, lists the action catalogue, and manages drafts, previews, publishing and unpublishing of workflows.
Integrates with: Firefly Creative Production
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Batch execution# API / SDK
Starts batch runs of a published workflow, reports batch and per-execution status and cancels batches.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Action catalogue# API / SDK
Lists the creative actions available as workflow steps.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Workflow management# API / SDK
Creates and updates drafts, previews runs, publishes, unpublishes, deletes and edits the metadata of workflows.
Last checked 2026-09-30
- Content Tagging API# API / SDK
AI services from Experience Platform Intelligent Services that extract keywords from text and dominant colours and text (OCR) from product images, for organising content and linking content features to customer behaviour.
Built on: Content Tagging
Last checked 2026-09-30
Sources 4
- developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/guides/
- developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/guides/get-started
- news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/adobe-introduces-firefly-services-and-custom-models-to-accelerate-enterprise-content-creation-and-production
- helpx.adobe.com/legal/product-descriptions/adobe-firefly.html